Excipulaceaft, HyaJosporce. Sporonema. 677 



Am. Fungi n. 4(^6. — Pustulis puiictiformibus stratum mgrum ef- 

 formaiitibus : sporulis oblongis, angustis, 20:^4, enucleatis. 



llab. in fructibus putrescentibus Piri et Mali in Pensylvaiiia. 



18. Discula Leguminum i'C.) Sacc. DUceUa le.guminuia Cookc iri 3581 

 Rav. Fung. Anier. n. \h1. — Pustulis piinctiformibus, demum con- 

 fluentibus, in maculi.s irregularibus dispositis; sporulis eliipticis, 

 hyaiinis, utrmque obtusis, 12-15^:6. 



Hab. in leguminibus Prosopidis. Galveston, Texas Amer. bor. 

 — Aa potius Glmosporiwn? 



19. Discula tenuispora (C. et II.) Sacc. Discella ienuispora Cooke ;^582 

 et llarkn. m Grev. 18.S0, p. 6. — Sparsa, atro-viridis, punctifor- 

 mis, applanata. margine leniter elevato, V^-^^ mill. diam.; sporulis 

 rectis, cjlindracol.s', obtusis, hyallnis, 20-2,5. 



Hab. in calamis Junci in California Araer. bor. 



III. In Monocolyledoneis. 



20. Discula anomala (C.) Sacc. Discnlla anomala Cooke in Grevil- 3583 

 iea. — Pustulis sparsis, orbicularibus, atris. epidermide tectis: spo- 

 rulis fusiformibus, endochromate bipartito, hyalinis, 70=^10. 



Hab. m foliis Yuccaj Draconis, New Jersey Amer. bor. — 

 Habitus DisceUce, sporulae vero facie Baciridii. « An potius Sla- 

 gonosporcB macrosporc£ (D. et M.) Sacc. affinior?)). 



SPORONEf^A Desm. XIV. Not. p. 182 (]847) (Etym. spora ai nema, 

 iium seu basidium), Ciinieriurn Fr. Summa pag. 418 (1849). — 

 Perithecia epidermido tecta, dein erumpentia, initio clausa dein a 

 centro versus ambitum in lacinias plures dehiscentia. Nucleus di- 

 scoideus moliiusculus, ssepe discoh^r. Sporulse ovoidojp v. cylindra- 

 cefe, hyalina^, continua\ Basidia filiformia, sa^pius ramosa. — Vi- 

 deretur Phacidiurn basidiosporum. 



1. Sporonema phacidroides Desm. Ann. Sc. nat. 1847, VIII. p. 182. — 35^4 

 Peritheciis copiosis, minutis, subrotundis, appianatis, atro-brunneis, 



in lacinias 4-5 inrequales, obtusas mox dohiscentibusi; disco pla- 

 niusGulo, cinnamomoo: sporulis ovoideo-oblongis, 5 u. longis bi- 

 nucieatis. 



Hab. m foliis Medicaginis maculata? in Gallia et Bri- 

 tannia. 



2. Sporonema hiemale De.sm. 19 Nol. p 25. — Hypophylium. minuturn, i^nsp, 

 sfiai-siiio vf-l bixe grcgnrium, i'nt,uiidat.um am ()M()iii,'iii;i, in l^fini^j.-;' 



2 5 irjfj.nilaros (('[iidorniic;!:) <li'iiis(U'M; : di. c! (■cii v \-i. |i.il!'l't '.<•) 



